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March 29, 2007

Idea: Develop an F-Bomb

The term “F-Bomb” is used often these days to describe what we used to simply call The F Word (mp3). Specifically, it describes the F Word when it’s used unexpectedly. For example, if a caller on a radio show uses the F Word, the host might chastise him for “dropping the F-Bomb.”

With that in mind, I think that if I were an evil dictator in a country developing a nuclear weapon, I would name my new weapon “The F-Bomb.” Then I’d get a little giggle every time it was reported in the news that my country is threatening to drop the F-Bomb. As in, “Ironicsansistan tested a long-range missile today, heightening fears that it will follow through on its threats to drop the F-Bomb on South Ironicsansistan.”

Comments

I worked on a film once in which the producers and directors were trying very hard to walk the pg-13/R line. They wanted a PG-13 so they were only allowed to say Fuck once and it appeared exactly once in the script.

Every time an actor would get wound up in a performance or fudge a few lines of dialog (happens all the time) and say the word the director would yell “F-bomb, F-bomb,” at the top of his lungs, “this needs to be a kids save movie for Christ’s Fucking Sake!”

He said it in front of the press kit people a few times. I wonder what the special features on the DVD will rate.